Monkeys escape in Mississippi after truck overturns
JASPER COUNTY, Miss. (WDEF) -- According to the Jasper County Sheriff's Office, a truck hauling disease-carrying monkeys overturned around the 117 mile marker North…
Georgia Bureau of Investigation promotes Dalton native, Daniel Nicholson
DALLAS, Ga. (WDEF) -- The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) has announced that they are promoting Dalton native Daniel Nicholson to assistant special agent in charge of the…
Gas Prices
CHATTANOOGA, Ga. (WDEF)-Gas prices are dropping. According to AAA the price of a gallon of gas could be around 3 dollars soon. It would be the first time in four years. Tennessee prices continued…
Tennessee Department of Correction transitioning to digitized inmate mail
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) will be shifting away from physical mail beginning on November 3, 2025. Physical mail will instead be scanned…
Radiant selects Tennessee to build world’s first mass-produced nuclear generator factory
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Radiant, a nuclear generator company, is investing $280 million to expand their research and development into Oak Ridge, Tenn. This was announced on Monday by Tennessee Governor Bill Lee,…
Missing boater found deceased in Monroe County
VONORE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Authorities have recovered the body of a missing east Tennessee boater this morning. James McTyre was reported missing Sunday on the Tellico Reservoir in Monroe County. Searches centered on the boat…
Blast rips through military explosives facility in Tennessee, leaving multiple people dead and missing, sheriff says
A powerful explosion ripped through a military explosives facility in Tennessee on Friday morning, leaving multiple people dead and missing, officials said. Video from the scene showed damaged vehicles and…
Harriman City councilman and firefighter son charged in shooting case
HARRIMAN, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Harriman City Councilman Brian Frost has been charged with multiple counts of tampering with evidence, among other charges. A shooting had occurred at a party that was hosted at Harriman Mr.…
Escaped Monroe County inmate captured
UPDATE: Escaped inmate Cody Allen Patterson has been located and taken back into custody without incident. A Monroe County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) deputy…
Death on New Highway 68 under investigation
MONROE COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) -- On Sunday evening around 5:30 p.m., the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, as well as the Madisonville Police Department, responded to a report on New Highway 68 at Turnpike Road about…
Tennessee set to execute only woman on state's death row
If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a century ago.…
Gatlinburg Bypass closed due to landslide
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The Gatlinburg Bypass remains closed following a landslide in the Great Smoky Mountains over the weekend. The Park service says they got almost three and a half inches of…
Man charged with killing 3 at waterfront North Carolina bar is decorated Marine veteran and Purple Heart recipient
A man charged with firing an assault rifle from a boat at patrons of a North Carolina waterfront bar, killing three people and wounding five others, was a decorated Marine combat veteran and Purple Heart recipient whose last…
Man sentenced to 14 years for blowing up ATM
DECATUR, Ga. (WDEF) -- A man has been sentenced to 14 years for blowing up a bank ATM. Prosecutors say that in the middle of the night two years ago, he blew up a Bank of America ATM in…
Millions of Americans are facing food stamp cuts as grocery costs continue to rise
Millions of people who receive food stamps could soon see smaller benefits or even get kicked out of the program due to changes that are starting to roll out from the Republicans' "big, beautiful" tax…
Lawsuit filed against Sewanee: The University Of The South over mold in dorms
SEWANEE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The University of the South is facing a lawsuit seeking more than $35 million over toxic mold found in…
Woman who tried to sell Elvis Presley's Graceland sentenced to over 4 years in federal prison
A Missouri woman was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in federal prison for scheming to defraud Elvis Presley's family by trying to auction off his Graceland home and property before a judge halted the brazen…
Shrimp sold in 31 states recalled due to possible radioactive contamination
AquaStar (USA) Corp. is recalling more than 85,000 bags of shrimp due to insanitary conditions where the products may have been contaminated with cesium-137, a radioactive element. In an alert posted Sunday, the U.S. Food and…
Bruce Pearl retires: Auburn coach abruptly steps down after 11-year tenure, greatest run in program history
College basketball has been hit with a huge coaching retirement decision for a second straight preseason. Auburn's Bruce Pearl is leaving the profession, sources told CBS Sports on Monday. The news comes less than a year after Virginia's Tony…
Day and night get equal billing Monday as fall equinox arrives.
Chattanooga, TN (Associated Press) - Day and night will get equal time for a brief moment as the equinox arrives. The Earth will experience about the same amount of day and night on Monday when the autumnal equinox arrives. From…
Madisonville police searching for vehicle involved in deadly hit-and-run
MADISONVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The Madisonville Police Department (MPD) are searching for a vehicle involved in a fatal hit and run earlier this week. On Tuesday, September…
Geoff Duncan switches parties, announces campaign for Georgia Governor
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Geoff Duncan was serving as the state's Lieutenant Governor as a Republican when Donald Trump claimed the state election was rigged against him. He was the most resistant Republican to the President's claims. Today he announced…
Trump signs memo sending federal law enforcement to join Tennessee National Guard in Memphis
Washington — President Trump signed a presidential memorandum Monday mobilizing federal law enforcement agents to Memphis, Tennessee, as a part of a task force that will include the Tennessee National Guard, the latest planned Guard deployment in his…
More than 300 Koreans detained by ICE at Georgia Hyundai plant heading home
A Korean Air Boeing 747-8I sent from Seoul to repatriate hundreds of South Korean workers who were detained last week in an immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG battery plant under construction in Georgia is seen in…